From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 28 20:14:14 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DDD316A4CE; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 20:14:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rip.psg.com (rip.psg.com [147.28.0.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A487F43D49; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 20:14:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from randy@psg.com) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=roam.psg.com) by rip.psg.com with esmtp (Exim 4.44 (FreeBSD)) id 1DG0cn-00051R-DL; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 20:14:13 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=roam.psg.com.psg.com) by roam.psg.com with esmtp (Exim 4.50 (FreeBSD)) id 1DG0cm-000Iza-10; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 12:14:12 -0800 From: Randy Bush MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16968.26003.523778.706804@roam.psg.com> Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 12:14:11 -0800 To: Joe Marcus Clarke References: <16968.21444.998017.259626@roam.psg.com> <42485533.6080200@FreeBSD.org> cc: freebsd gnome Subject: Re: end-user whines about 2.10 X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 20:14:14 -0000 >> o i can't seem to find a biff for the panel. inbox monitor >> seems to have disappeared or something, and addtopanel offers >> nothing obvious to replace it. > This is documented in the GNOME 2.10 release notes. I'm now using > mail/mail-notification as a replacement, but it is not as real-time as > the applet used to be. i can start and configure it, but nothing appears in the panel. and with 500 msgs a day, popups i just don't need. >> o the wireless applet seems to have changed to some sort of >> useless flashing pixmap of a screen. where did the signal >> strength meter, an ever so useful device, go? > It's a purple icon next to the flashing monitors. ack. 'cept the signal strength is not really readable, see where i can not see how it tells me the strength, according to whoppens when i click it, is 66%. and how to get rid of those silly monitors? also, the preferences/configure option seems not to work, "The interface does not exist," when indeed ath0 does and shows on those lovely flashing monitors. >> o i still have not figured out how to get my own separate >> custom application menu back. see just to the right of the >> main menu foot in >> >> for my 2.8 panel section. sorry, i could not figure out how >> to take a screenshot while the hierarchic menu folder was >> open. > I just create custom drawers, and that works fine in GNOME 2.10. maybe if you don't have a complex hierarchy of them and need to label each drawer so you know what you're doing. and they're screen sticky! >> and totem now smacks me when i try to play a vcd, whining >> "OSS device "/dev/dsp" is already in use by another program." >> when nothing is using sound that i can see. >> # lsof> grep -i dsp >> # lsof /dev/dsp > Check your gstreamer audio settings. uh, against what? and what should they be? current settings are in . whine whine whine :-) randy